Film Critic Says "Gone With the Wind" Should Be Banned

He thinks it should be rejected along with the Confederate Flag.

It has won multiple Oscars, claimed top spots in countless "greatest movies of all time" lists, and still reigns as box office champion in North America — but according to Lou Lumenick, Gone With the Wind no longer deserves a place on the big screen.

As the New York Post film critic recently wrote, the 1939 film is racist and romanticizes slavery to the point that it should not be shown in theaters.

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"If the Confederate flag is finally going to be consigned to museums as an ugly symbol of racism, what about the beloved film offering the most iconic glimpse of that flag in American culture?" he explains. "What does it say about us as a nation if we continue to embrace a movie that, in the final analysis, stands for many of the same things as the Confederate flag?"

He also speculates that many in the motion picture academy feel the same way, and says he has a feeling that "the movie's days as a cash cow are numbered."

"It's showing on July 4 at the Museum of Modern Art as part of the museum's salute to the 100th anniversary of Technicolor," he concludes. "And maybe that's where this much-loved but undeniably racist artifact really belongs."

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